DC 981-982
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The Answer, 1955 October 4 : Director: Delbert Mann Script: David Davidson Cast: Paul Douglas, Nina
Foch
: A nuclear test in the Pacific results in the death of an angel. The philosophical
questions regarding the angel's message are explored by an army general who witnesses
and believes in the incident.
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DD 132-135, VBA 611
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The Heart's a Forgotten Hotel, 1955 October 25 : DD 132-133 is an archival kinescope, DD 134-135 is a kinescope print, VBA 611 is a
videocassette viewing copy Director: Arthur Penn Script: Arnold
Shulman Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Edmond O'Brien
: A flashy, irresponsible widower tries to make ends meet running a seedy Florida hotel
and raising his son. Problems arise when the boy's aunt and uncle want to take him
away.
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DD 128-129
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Daisy! Daisy!, 1955 November 22 : Director: Arthur Penn Script: Sumner Locke Elliott Cast: Tom Ewell, Jane
Wyatt
: A minor novelist becomes a literary sensation when he pretends that the flimsy story he
wrote in one night is really the diary of a simple Australian girl's first love.
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DC 992-993
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The Day the Trains Stopped Running, 1956 January 3 : Director: Vincent J. Donehue Script: Harry Ridgely Cast: Joseph Sweeney,
Elizabeth Patterson
: After fifty years of service to the railroad, Sam Rasher must come to grips with the
fact that he is retired and that the railroad will go on without him.
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DC 994-995, DD 313-314
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Lost, 1956 January 17 : DC 994-995 is an archival kinescope; DD 313-314 is a kinescope print Director:
Arthur Penn Script: Arnold Shulman Cast: Steven Hill, Sally Grace
: The true story of a man who disappears from his South Boston home shortly after
recovering from a nervous breakdown and wanders the streets of New York City as an
amnesiac for several days. : Restricted viewing: Film is unviewable in its current condition.
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DD 209-210
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This Business of Murder, 1956 January 31 : Digital access copy available.
: Director: Vincent J. Donehue Script: David Swift Cast: James Whitmore, E.G.
Marshall
: A weekend trip among five businessmen is clouded by double dealing and mistrust. When
one of the men is murdered, the extent of the deceit is revealed.
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DD 236-237
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Return to Cassino, 1956 February 14 : DD 236-237 is an archival kinescope. Director: Arthur Penn Script: Mann
Rubin Cast: John Forsythe, Kurt Kraszner, Dina Merrill
: While on vacation in Cassino, Italy, where he served in WW2, a man must confront the
anger and hatred he still holds toward residents of the town.
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DD 194-195
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Flight, 1956 February 28 : Director: Vincent J. Donehue Script: Horton Foote Cast: Kim Stanley, Ruth
Hussey, Albert Dekker
: A woman, alienated from her parents, secretly marries a boy of whom they disapprove.
The secret comes out, her husband deserts her, and she leaves her family to start a new
life.
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DD 242-243
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The Undiscovered Country, 1956 March 27 : Director: Arthur Penn Script: J.P. Miller Cast: Cyril Ritchard, Nina Foch,
Frederick O'Neal
: Wealthy and powerful Royce Thurmond refuses to face the consequences of his past
actions after his daughter and foreman turn against him and leave.
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DC 979-980
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You and Me and the Gatepost, 10 April 1956 : Director: Vincent J. Donehue Script: Sumner Locke Elliott Cast: Mary Astor,
George Grizzard, John Emery
: In this comedy of manners which spoofs the New York society crowd, a wealthy, aging
socialite champions a play by an untalented but likeable boy from Utah. Includes a
public service announcement for the American Cancer Society.
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DD 171-172
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The Center of the Maze, 1956 April 24 : Director: Vincent J. Donehue Script: Sam Hall Cast: Ann Harding, Dina Merrill,
Mark Richman
: A wealthy liberal is forced to confront the discrepancies between her political and
domestic life when her daughter decides to marry the gardener and live on a farm.
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DC 970-971, CA 744-745
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The Keyhole, 1956 May 22 : DC 970-971 is a kinescope print; CA 744-745 is an archival kinescope Director: Fred
Coe Script: Sumner Locke Elliott Cast: E.G. Marshall, Lee Grant, Meg
Mundy
: A reconstruction of an 1889 murder trial in which a woman is accused of killing her
husband but, because of the laws of the time, cannot testify in her own defense.
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DD 216-217
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Nick and Letty, 1956 June 5 : Director: Arthur Penn Script: Nelson Goodman Cast: Nancy Walker, Norman Feld,
Mary Fickett
: A secret romance blossoms between a navy nurse and a sailor. They keep it a secret to
avoid ridicule, but their secret is eventually revealed.
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DD 207-208
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Snow Job, 1956 November 8 : Director: Jack Smight Script: Richard Turner Cast: Joan Blondell, James
Gregory
: The son of working class parents gets in trouble at school for fighting. He's labeled a
juvenile delinquent but is eventually proven innocent.
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